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Mar 28, 2015MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Always appreciate you keeping it real, StarGladiator. I think ZERO DARK THIRTY is actually a subtly effective indictment of the U.S. national security state. At least that is how I interpreted it. Take the final scene of the movie. Maya (Jessica Chastain) is the sole passenger on an enormous spotless military transport plane. The camera pulls tight on her face, and she cries. The United States is a hollowed-out power animated by elites. That's the message. Everyone in ZERO DARK THIRTY is an elite, from the Navy SEAL studs with their beards and keffiyeh to the CIA analysts in their futuristic "Predator Bay." Maya herself is the ultimate elite -- smart, beautiful, focused on her career, feared by the bureaucracy. The only time we really see regular people is when the crying bin Laden children and women appear during the final raid.